http://www.nypl.org/locations/sibl The Science Industry and Business Library is packed with aliteraturea that seems slightly undeserving of the nameaguides and booklets about computers, finance, real estate, and industrial relations, among other things. If the massive, corporate-themed collection seems a bit forbidding, free classes (attended, so far, by more than 63,000 patrons) teach Internet and library-scrounging skills. If you're uninterested in navigating the system, call and request a book (24 hours in advance) and librarians will have it waiting for you at the front desk. More >>

http://www.nyu.edu The treasures at NYU's Fales Library more than justify the hoops through which you might have to jump just to gain access. The 106,000 volumes in the DeCoursey Fales collection of 19th-century English-language fiction include familiar authors in multiple editions and formats, as well as their less-loved contemporaries. And the Cecily Brownstone Collection of books on American cookery ranges from Our Digestion or My Jolly Friend's Secret by Dio Lewis (1872) to The Joy of Cooking.
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